- Basic charts are efficient
- Be truthful: «The purpose of infographics and data visualizations is to enlighten people—not entertain them, not to sell them products, services, or ideas, but to inform them.» @albertocairo
- Titel, labels and legend are key, annotate and explain
- Thinking with data visualizations, fast and slow @SteveFranconeri
- Everything we know about how humans interpret graphics—37 studies on human perception in 30 minutes @kennelliott
Currently we have bar and line charts, see styleguide for all options and examples.
Originally developed for the government report «Wellbeing in Germany».
- maps and box plots have not been ported yet
- first line is header row with column keys
- always have a value column with the number you want visualize
- one row per value
General Advice: Tidy Data Rulebook Benjamin Wiederkehr
Transpose—aka rotating columns to rows—in your tabulator, is your friend.
Editieren -> Einfügen -> Chart
Double click or click the edit pen.
JSON Config: use any props here, needs to be valid JSON, auto formats on blur if it is validCSV Data: add your CSV data here, pasting TSV data is supported—you can copy and past from most tabulators like LibreOffice, Excel and Google Sheets.
Chrome only.
Export SVG for manual editing in e.g. Illustrator.
You can export an Abstract Teaser as PNG or SVG, use those pngs for the front.
Use Abstract Teaser mit Hintergrund as PNG for social media images.
- Book: the truthful art by alberto cairo
- Tweets, a list of good accounts